(v. t.) To stain; to color; to give a new and permanent color to, as by the application of dyestuffs.
(n.) Color produced by dyeing.
(n.) Material used for dyeing; a dyestuff.
(n.) Same as Die, a lot.
Example Sentences:
(1) The most successful dyes were phenocyanin TC, gallein, fluorone black, alizarin cyanin BB and alizarin blue S. Celestin blue B with an iron mordant is quite successful if properly handled to prevent gelling of solutions.
(2) The actions of the polyvalent cationic dye Ruthenium Red and the enzyme neuraminidase were studied at the frog neuromuscular junction.
(3) Significant increases in the extravasation of dye were observed in both animal groups sensitized with IgG1 and IgG2 antibodies.
(4) While the reduced form of the "derived" polyphenolic compounds, generated during tissue homogenization, appeared to enhance dye binding with bovine serum albumin, their influence on the protein assay directly in crude homogenates was extremely diverse.
(5) To selectively stain polyanionic macromolecules of growth plate cartilage and to prevent artifacts induced by aqueous fixation, proximal tibial growth plates were excised from rats, slam-frozen, and freeze-substituted in 100% methanol containing the cationic dye Alcian blue.
(6) This dye is concentrated and secreted by the parietal cells.
(7) The rhodamine 123-induced growth inhibition was partially reversed by treating the dye-pre-exposed infected erythrocytes with the proton ionophore carbonyl-cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone, which dissipates transmembrane proton gradients.
(8) The duration of electrophoresis was based on the migration of a marker dye for a predetermined distance.
(9) Effects of fixation with glutaraldehyde (GA), glutaraldehyde-osmium tetroxide (GA-OsO(4)), and osmium tetroxide (OsO(4)) on ion and ATP content, cell volume, vital dye staining, and stability to mechanical and thermal stress were studied in Ehrlich ascites tumor cells (EATC).
(10) By using pH- or Ca(2+)-sensitive dyes and recording at the ion-sensitive and -insensitive (isosbestic) wavelengths, the method can measure both cell volume changes and intracellular ionic activities.
(11) An argon dye laser system with lambda em=630 nm (400 mW cm-2) was used for PDT with a total light dose of 400 J cm-2.
(12) In a complete system, consisting of a dye-donor couple, ferredoxin, thioredoxin and ferredoxin-thioredoxin reductase, light activation of purified spinach fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase was observed in vitro.
(13) When given 30 min after acetic acid instillation SC-41930 prevented the rise in myeloperoxidase and dye extravasation observed in the acetic acid inflammed tissue.
(14) A comparison was made between the Q's estimated by the CO2 rebreathing method during tethered swimming and previously published data on Q determined by the dye-dilution method during free swimming in a flune.
(15) A novel staining procedure for enumerating osteoclasts on neonatal mouse calvaria with the vital fluorescent dye acridine orange is described.
(16) Thus, angiographic dye appears to decrease heart rate by a direct effect on pacemaker tissue and by reflex vagal suppression of the sinus pacemaker.
(17) The purpose of this study was to compare the level of apical dye penetration when different sealers were used.
(18) This protein which we call CBP-58 bears similarities to the endoplasmic reticulum protein, calreticulin, in that it has a pI of 4.7 containing approximately 30% glutamate and aspartate, has a high capacity for calcium, and stains blue with the carbocyanine dye, 'Stains-all'.
(19) Minced and triturated fragments from the spinal cord of normal rat fetuses (15-18 days gestation) labeled with the fluorescent dye fast blue (FB) were successfully transplanted into juvenile myelin-deficient rat spinal cord under direct observation.
(20) In vitro, the soluble core PEI and membrane both bound reactive substances of limited aqueous stability, such as from [14C]N-methyl-N-nitrosourea ([14C]NMU), and aqueous stable dyes of molecular weight up to 1000.
Purpurin
Definition:
(n.) A dyestuff resembling alizarin, found in madder root, and extracted as an orange or red crystalline substance.
Example Sentences:
(1) A cDNA for purpurin, a secreted 20,000 dalton neural retina cell adhesion and survival protein, has been sequenced and expressed in mammalian cells.
(2) Purpurin was not retained intracellularly and did not bind to TTR coupled to Sepharose.
(3) Purpurins, which have strong absorption bands above 650 nm.
(4) The 20,000-mol-wt protein, called retinal purpurin (RP), stimulates neural retina cell-substratum adhesion and prolongs the survival of neural retina cells in culture.
(5) In 30-day tumor regrowth studies, 70% of animals treated with the metallopurpurin derivative SnET2 were free of tumors while 50% of the animals treated with the free-base purpurin ET2 were free of tumor.
(6) In spite of UV-vis and mass spectroscopic similarities, the "purpurin" 7 differs from the "purpurins" 6a,b by the loss of ring A.
(7) The synthesis of purpurins from etioporphyrin I and coproporphyrin I proceeds in high yield and with a high degree of regioselectivity.
(8) Product formation can be rationalized in terms of relief of steric strain about the periphery of the purpurin macrocycle.
(9) Purpurin mRNA is found in both embryonic and adult retina, but not the brain, heart, or liver.
(10) In contrast to RBP, purpurin was not retained in vitamin A-deficient HeLa cells.
(11) Purpurin and the serum RBP are, however, different molecules, for the serum protein is approximately 3,000 D larger than purpurin and has different silver-staining characteristics.
(12) Most interestingly, anti-purpurin and anti-HSPG bound only to one end of adhesive filaments.
(13) Purpurin derivatives, a group of synthetic photosensitizers, were tested for their photodynamic activity against transplantable N-[4-(5-nitro-2-furyl)-2-thiazolyl]formamide-induced urothelial tumors growing in male Fischer 344 rats.
(14) In contrast to RBP, expressed purpurin did not bind to transthyretin (TTR).
(15) Purpurins are a class of porphyrin derivative that have been shown to have good in vivo cytotoxicity to N-[4-(5-nitro-2-furyl)-2-thiazolyl]formamide (FANFT) induced rat bladder tumors (AY-27) implanted into Fisher 344 rats.
(16) Finally, purpurin supports the survival of dissociated ciliary ganglion cells, indicating that RBPs can act as ciliary neurotrophic factors.
(17) A 20,000-D protein called purpurin has recently been isolated from the growth-conditioned medium of cultured embryonic chick neural retina cells (Schubert, D., and M. LaCorbiere, 1985, J.
(18) Purpurin binds retinol and may play a major role in retinol transport across the interphotoreceptor cell matrix.
(19) Ferritin iron was released by a number of bipyridyl radicals including those derived from diquat and paraquat, the anthracycline radicals of adriamycin, daunorubicin and epirubicin, the semiquinones of anthraquinone-2-sulphonate, 1,5 and 2,6-dihydroxyanthraquinone, 1-hydroxyanthraquinone, purpurin, and plumbagin, and the nitroaromatic radicals of nitrofurantoin and metronidazole.
(20) In V79 cells, only HA with 2 hydroxy groups in the 1,3 positions (1,3-DHA, purpurin, emodin) or with a hydroxymethyl sidechain (lucidin and aloe-emodin) were mutagenic.